Method and system for starting a multiple PDA operating system through a menu

Abstract

A method and system for starting a multiple PDA OS through a menu is disclosed. The invention mainly modifies the BIOS booting procedure in a notebook PC installed with multiple OS's. After the notebook PC is turned on, the multiple OS's are detected. These multiple OS's, including a PDA OS and a normal notebook PC basic OS (such as the Windows OS), are displayed on a menu. By ignoring some hardware diagnostic steps during the BIOS booting procedure and only performing hardware diagnoses for those input devices that support menu manipulations, the starting speed of the laptop can be accelerated. The user can thus start any OS by clicking the desired item in the OS menu.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The invention relates to a technique for starting PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) OS (Operating System) and its utilities in a portable PC (Personal Computer), such as a notebook PC or equivalent electronic device. More specifically, in a notebook PC in which multiple PDA OS's are installed, a method and system is proposed to provide an OS menu for the user to select one of the PDA OS's and to start the PDA OS (including the OS's of hand held PC's, pocket PC's and other equivalent small electronic devices).[0003]2. Related Art[0004]With the increase in computer popularity, people often need to use computers to solve problems either at work or at home. In general, two major methods of obtaining information are: (1) from books, newspapers, journals, CD-ROM's, etc; and (2) from the network. However, both of these methods have drawbacks. The information obtained using the first method will become outdated as time progresse...

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Benefits of technology

[0008]An object of the invention is to provide a technique that can arbitrarily assign and start an OS in a notebook PC on which multiple PDA OS's and the normal OS (such as the Windows OS) are installed.

[0014]a quick hardware diagnostic procedure, which is pre-loaded into the BIOS of the notebook PC to perform hardware diagnoses for the input devices that support such menu manipulations, skipping complicated hardware diagnosis steps in the normal starting procedure of the notebook PC, so as to accelerate the speed of starting the notebook PC.

Problems solved by technology

However, both of these methods have drawbacks.

The information obtained using the first method will become outdated as time progresses.

Rapid exchange of information greatly shortens the life cycle of the information.

However, such information recorded in media like books cannot be easily updated.

The information obtained using the second method, however, continuously changes along with the development of the world, also resulting in some troubles for users.

One can see the problems from the following points:1. Existing personal computer OS's (Operating Systems), such as Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux, and so on, are complicated despite (or because of) their powerful functions and designs.

Moreover, the user operation designs are not intuitive and simple enough.

This situation scares people without any computer background because of the obstacles they meet while using these systems.2. Users who do not understand the network structure do not know where to start their searches.

However, this method cannot solve the above problems because a utility is needed to switch between the OS's.3. PDA's are becoming more popular nowadays.

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